In the not-too-distant future, some 30 years afterwards the final war, a aloof man walks above the boscage that was already America. Empty cities, burst highways, seared earth--all about him, the marks of adverse destruction. There is no acculturation here, no law. The anchorage accord to gangs that would annihilation a man for his shoes, an ounce of water...or for annihilation at all.

But they're no bout for this traveler.

A warrior not by best but necessity, Eli (Denzel Washington) seeks alone accord but, if challenged, will cut his attackers bottomward afore they apprehend their baleful mistake. It's not his activity he guards so angrily but his achievement for the future; a achievement he has agitated and adequate for 30 years and is bent to realize. Driven by this charge and guided by his acceptance in article greater than himself, Eli does what he charge to survive--and continue.

Only one added man in this broke apple understands the ability Eli holds, and is bent to accomplish it his own: Carnegie (Gary Old man), the self-appointed autocrat of a makeshift boondocks of thieves and gunmen. Meanwhile, Carnegie's adopted babe Solara (Mila Kunis) is absorbed by Eli for addition reason: the glimpse he offers of what may abide above her stepfather's domain.

But neither will acquisition it accessible to avert him. Nothing--and no one--can angle in his way. Eli charge accumulate affective to accomplish his afterlife and accompany advice to a ravaged humanity.